OF SRI LANKA GDP
USD $3.1 BILLION
USD 118 PER PERSON

Sri Lanka’s health sector is largely operated by the government, with over 593 hospitals around the country. This is also supplemented by approximately 197 private hospitals throughout the island. The health industry has followed a strictly traditional approach over the years, with ICT being used only for minor improvements in the present infrastructure.

The demands that are being placed in the health sector are also rapidly changing due to ageing population and with rural areas finding access to proper health care increasingly difficult and expensive. We believe that technology plays a vital role in breathing new life to this crucial industry which is paramount to keep many of the other industries and population illness free.

There remains huge potential in disrupting the access to health care across Sri Lanka. ICT can be utilized across areas such as Wearable’s, Big Data, Patient history keeping, developing research models in identifying new medicine and trends of diseases will all play a part in rejuvenating the health sector.

* Mining Big Data of patients and converting them into meaningful information to be used at the point of care, giving due consideration to acceptance, privacy, and usability issues.